17-1726.   Organization of nonprofit corporation to receive, manageand dispose of property for certain churches, church organizations orreligious societies; membership; bylaws; authority.The governing body or ecclesiastical head of any unincorporated church,church organization, or religious society having, under the laws,canons, rules, regulations, or usages of such church, organization, orsociety, the authority to conduct and manage its property and temporalaffairs, may organize or cause to be organized one or more corporationsnot for profit under the provisions of the general corporation code ofKansas to receive, hold, manage, encumber, and dispose of real andpersonal property used by or held for the benefit of such church, churchorganization, or religious society. The members of any such corporationshall be determined in the manner set forth in its articles ofincorporation, which articles may also set forth how such corporationshall be governed or that its government shall be in such manner asshall be set forth in its bylaws. No such corporation shall haveauthority to conduct religious services or to make or enforce laws,canons, rules or regulations relating to ecclesiastical or doctrinalmatters, or to perform any of the functions or exercise any of thepowers which are proper only to religious corporations.

      History:   L. 1961, ch. 126, § 1; June 30.